Time-controlled fare-indicator.



P. FLOUSSFISCH.

TIME CONTROLLED FARE INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FILED IAII.25. IQIB.

Patented Sept. 4, 1917.

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P. FLOUSSFISCH.

TIME CONTROLLEDFARE INDICATOR.

APPLICATION FlLED mms. 1916.

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in the interior, certain PABLO FLOUSSFISQH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

TIME-CONTROLLED FARE-INDICATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 191 '7.

Application filed January 85, 1918. Serial No. 74,081.

To all whom it may concem Be it known that I, PABLO FLOUSSFIBCH, a

citizen of Argentina, and a resident of the city of New York county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Time- Controlled Fare-Indicators, of which the following is a specification.

-The invention comprises certain new and useful features of construction and operation in time mechanisms, and more particularly in time-controlled fare indicators for public vehicles. The special object of the invention is to provide simple. and reliable instrumentalities in a fare indicator of this descri tion whereby the starting and 'stoppin o the clock train and the restoration 0% an intermittingl operated fare-indicating member and o the clock hands are controlled by a signal member servin as a handle. A further object is to prov'i e such a device with a set of hands, constituting a total time indicator, which are unafl'ected by such restoring operation. Oneof the features of the invention resides in the means for intermittingly advancing the fare-indicating member and for disengaging the said means reparatory to the restoration of said memer. Other features relate to the manner of coordinating the various instrumentalities which act when the device is stopped or started. Various other objects and aspects of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art as the specification proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a front e ovation of the device in inoperative condition, dotted lines representing the signal in the position to which it is moved to start the apparatus in action;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation with a cover p broken away;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation;

Fig. 4 is an'enlarged sectional front elevation, with the front of the case and the dials removed;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the mechanism parts being shown broken away and in section;

Fig. 6 is a similar view looking from the opposite side;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentar; view 0013651301111. ing to Fig. 4, on astill arger scale, showing the parts in a difierent condition, and with certain parts broken away or omitted;

Fig. 8 a horizontal sectional view slfhowing the total time indicator hands and dI'lVlIlg connections;

Fig. 9 is a vertical section through the forward part of the case, showing the fare- 1ndicating member in face view;

Fi 10 is a horizontal section taken in the p ane of the main hour arbor, this arbor apd certain other parts being shown in P ,111;

Fig. 11 is a section on the line 11-11 of 1 1g. 10; and

ig. 12 is a section on the line 12-42 of Fig. 10.

The clock train and thereb operated and controlled parts are inclos in asuitable circular case 1, having a bracket 2 for attachment to the vehicle, and a glas front 3.

A si a1 arm 4 is mounted at the upper part 0 the back of the case in such manner as to be capable of being swung from a vertical position to a horizontal position and vice-verse. When the signal arm is vertical, displaying its vacant sign, the mechanism in the case is at rest. When it is moved to the horizontal position the mechanism is set in operation, to be arrested when the signal arm is returned to vertical. The said arm is held in its vertical osition by a spring latch 5 attached to it an having a pin 6 to enter a hole in the back of the case.

The si their al arm is pinned to a rock-shaft -7,extend1ng within the case and supported insuitable bearings. The si al arm and rock-shaft constitute an embo iment of controlliag device, which, through suitable connections' hereinafter described, cofirdinates various functions of the machine.

Within the case is housed a conventional or suitable. form of clock train, of which the drivin spring and primary dri r are designated 8 and 9 respectively. arlgiis elements of this train appear in different views, but no attempthas been made to show the complete train, since to do so would unduly obscure the drawin without illustrating anything not familiar to the art.

The driving gear 9 drives the minute hand arbor 10 through a inion 11, winch would be loose on the ar or except that it is coupled yieldingly therewith through a compression spring 12, which is interposed between the pinion 11 and a collar 13, so as to press the face of a gear 15 united with the pinion 11 against another collar 14 on the arbor. The function of the gear 15 islmmaterial to the invention, being merely a member of the clock train. The spring 12 thus afiords a means of disconnection between the minute hand 16 and the clock train, to permit the hand to be restored to initial osition as hereinafter described.

In 1i e manner the tubular arbor 17 p of the hour hand 18 is yieldingly connected with its immediate drivin gear 19 of the clock train, through a spring 20.

The said hour and m1nu te hands e06 erate with a usual stationary dial 21, provided at one side however with a window 22, through which the fare indications 23 of a fare-indicating disk or member 24 are visible, one at a time.

This fare-indicating disk is fastened to a hub 25, which has a ratchet wheel 26 united therewith, the hub bein mounted to turn on the hour arbor 17. T e means for advancing the fare-indicating member intermittingly, in this instance a distance of one division (or indication) every fifteen minutes will now be described.

Pinned on the minute arbor 10 is a fourtoothed tri ping wheel 27, the teeth of which are curve or mclined at their advancing sides and perpendicular at the back. The pinion 28 shown united with this trip ing wheel merel constitutes an element 0 the clock train, avin no novel function as far as this invention isconcerned.

The teeth of the trip ing wheel act upon an arm 29 projecting rom a feed do carrier 30, which is pivoted at 31. To the carrier is pivoted at 32 a feed dog 33 having a pin 34 which enga es the teeth of the ratchet wheel 26 to a vance the same. A spring 35 connected to the carrier constantly tends to urge the same in the direction to cause its dog to advance the ratchet wheel and, therefore, the fare-indicating member 24. Another spring 36 acts upon the feed dog to hold its working element 34 in engagement with the ratchet wheel during the operation of the carrier and dog. The extent to which the do can swing on the carrier toward the rate et is limited, however, by the abutment of a shoulder 37 on the do with a stud 38 on the carrier, from whic it results that when the carrier is swung to the inoperative position shown in Fig. 4, its dog is disengaged from the ratchet.

A holding dog 39 pivoted on a suitable frame part is urged into engagement with the ratchet wheel by a s rin 40 and serves to hold the ratchet against eing dragged backward by the feed dog when the latter is retracted through the action of the forward, inclined si e of each of the teeth of the tripping wheel 27 on the arm 290i the feed dog carrier. 2

When the feed dog carrier and feed dog are swun to their inoperative positions, the back of t e pin 34 on the feed dog presses --tory to restoring the sai swung rom the horizontal to the vertical position. This disenga ent of the feed and holdn dogs from t e ratchet wheel of the farem catmg member 24 is gerformed preparamember to initial position, wherein, preferably, no fare indi cation appears" through the window 22.

The restoration or re-setting of the fareindicatin member is controlled by the same rock-ska 7. To this 'end a heart-shaped cam 45 is united with the hub 25, for engagement by the angled nose 46 on an arm 47 projecting from the rock-shaft. When the signal arm is horizontal and the machine running, the said nose is removed from the cam, as shown in Fig. 7, but when the signal arm is put up the nose descends and bears tion, that is to say, the twelve oclock position. For this purpose heart-shaped cams 49 and 50 are fastened on the mmute and hour arbors. The hour cam 50 is placed i alongside the cam 45 and being of the same size may be operated b y hthesame nose 46 of the same arm 47. e cam 49 of the minute arbor is engaged by the nose 51 of a special arm 52 (7see Fig. 12) also carried by the rock-shaft When the fare-indicating member is resetit is held stationary by a detent comprisin a pivoted arm 53 urged by a spring 54 an having a pin 55 arranged to drop into a notch 56 in the periphery of the rotatable disk. When the al arm is swung down to start the mechanlsm, this detent is disengaged by the arm 47 which strikes and raises another pin 55 on the arm 53.

The starting and stopping of the clock train is efiected through a bell-crank lever 57, pivoted at 58 and carrying on one of its arms a spring finger 59 to contact with the periphe of the balance wheel 60 of the clock t ain. When this finger is moved down in the drawings it bears gently against the balance wheel and thereby stops the clock. When it is raised, it gives the balance wheel a partial revolution, so as to msure the clock starting. The movement of the starting and stopping device is caused mounted on an arbor 67 which is driven by' gears 9 and 68, and, therefore, revolves once an hour. The hour hand 64, however, is driven through the reducing train 69, shown in Fig. 8, so that it makes a revolution only once in twenty-four hours. These hands constitute a total time indicator which shows thesum of the several periods during which the machine has been in operation for the space of a day. They are unaffected by the automatic restoration of the hands 16 and 18 to the twelve oclock position, but may themselves be independently set to zero, at the end of the day, a spring 70 (Fig. 8) being provided to permit of this.

The operation will now be briefly described. With the controlling device in one position, that is to say, with the signal arm erect as in Figs. 1 to 3, the clock mechanism is at rest, the fare-indicating member is held stationa by its detent, and the feed and holding ogs are held out of engagement with the ratchet wheel connected with said member. When the signal arm is swung downward to horizontal position, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the rock-shaft 7 united with this arm performs several functions. In the first place it permits the clock stopping and starting bell-crank to rise under the action of its spring, whereby the spring finger 59 is withdrawn from the balance wheel and in doin so Starts the latter in motion, thereby insurlng the operation of the clock. It also swings the noses 46 and 51 of the arms 47 and 52 away from the heart-shaped cams, so that the fare-indicating member and the main hour and minute hands are free to be driven. The detent 53 is also disengaged from the fare-indicating member by the arm 47. The feed dog car rier is also permitted to rock under the action of its spring to bring its feed dog into engagement with the ratchet wheel. This in turn permits the holding dog to engage with the said wheel. The tripping wheel 27 being set in motion as soon as the clock train is started commences to travel beneath the arm 29 of the feed dog carrier. The parts are preferably so adjusted that at each stopping of the clock mechanism and resetting of the fare-indicating member the said arm 29 bears upon the extremity of one of the teeth of the tripping wheel, so that practically as soon as this wheel starts to turn the arm drops oif the said extremity be hind the perpendicular rear face of the tooth, thereby permittin the spring-urged feed dog carrier to a vance the ratchet wheel and the therewith connected fare-indicating member the distance of one division. This causes the first fare indication to appear in the window 22, thereby indicating the charge for the first quarter-hour. Thereafter, as the trippin wheel continues to revolve the arm 29 o the feed dog carrier rides upon the inclined forward side of the succeeding tooth, with the result that the feed dog is gradually retracted along the periphery of the ratchet wheel in readiness to advance the same another division as soon as the said arm drops off the extremity of this tooth. This occurs at the expiration of fifteen minutes, and the same operation is repeated at equal intervals as long as the clock continues to run and until the signalarm controlling device is again set to the ino erative or vacant position. When the signal arm is moved to such position, the rock-shaft swings the bell-crank 57 downward so that its spring finger presses against the balance wheel, thereby stopping the clock. The rock-shaft also acts upon the feed dog carrier in the manner heretofore described, so as to disengage the feed dog from the ratchet wheel, the same operation also disengaging the holding dog. The noses of the arms 47 and 52 are now forced a ainst the edges of the heart-shaped cams, w ich are rotated in one direction or the other until the said noses are seated in their notches. In this way the fare-indicating member and the main hour and minute hands are restored to the initial positions.

represented by Figs. 1 and 9. When the fare-indicating member is so re-set, its detent automatically engages with it to prevent any possibility of accidental displacement.

The second set of hands 62 and 63 within the back case are driven whenever the clock is in motion, but are not restored with the restoration of the main set of hands and of the fare-indicating member. They consequently show at the end of each day the total time during which the machine was in operation. These ends may be set to zero manually when desired.

What I claim as new is:

1. In an apparatus of the" character described, the combination of driving mechanism a rotary registering member, a ratchet wheel united with said '1 1; member, a tripping cam driven by the driving mechanism and mounted coaxially with the registering member and its ratchet wheel, a bell crank feed dog carrier having one arm extending into operative relation to said tripping cam, a feed dog pivoted upon its other arm in operative relation to the ratchet wheel united with the registering member, a resetting cam connected with the registering member, a rock member bearing an arm to act upon said resetting cam, and an extra arm united with said bell crank feed dog carrier and extending into osition to be likewise operated by said roc mem'ber.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of clock mechanism, clock hands driven thereby through friction connections, a registering disk coaxial with the clock hands, means operated by the clock mechanism for intermittingl advancing the registering disk, a ratchet w eel united with the registerin disk,'a trippin cam coaxial with the ban s, disk and ra et wheel and driven by the clock mechanism, feed mechanism operated by said tripping cam and acting upon said ratchet wheel, resetting cams umte with the coaxial hands and 'stering disk, and means for simultaneous y act inglppon said resettin cams.

witness whereo I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of January, 1916.

' PABLO FLOUSSFISCH.

Witn:

G. H. Oasrnr, Tana A. Axnnason. 

